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Kabbalah

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Kabbalah has been clouded in confusion, legend, myth & misrepresentation because authentic Kabbalah has been hidden for thousands of years.

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Perceiving Reality

What is the
Essence of Kabbalah?

What is the essence of Kabbalah?

Well, there has been a lot of confusion, legend myth &
misrepresentation surrounding the true nature of Kabbalah because it's been
shrouded in mystery for thousands of years, and it’s called the Hidden Science
for 3 reasons.

1.In the past
Kabbalists taught only a few worthy, highly developed people in each generation
who already possessed inner qualities not developed in humanity as a whole
until recently. These qualities allowed them to understand and use it
correctly. So it was purposely hidden by the Kabbalists.

2.All
Kabbalistic books are written using words that seem to refer to things and
people but in fact not a single word in any Kabbalistic book is talking about
the physical world, and if you don’t learn how to read these books from a
Kabbalist in the authentic teaching lineage, you simply can’t understand them.
No matter how bright you are, you’ll end up with a product of your imagination
and nothing more.

3.Kabbalah
reveals the purpose and nature of this system we call life, and unless a person
has a powerfully real and serious need to ask this very question, they can’t
hear the answer. Even if it’s shouted at them. But today people all over the
world are seeking out Kabbalah.

So let’s clear up the misunderstanding. First lets look at
what Kabbalah is not:

although many of the above mentioned have borrowed and
misinterpreted the principles of Kabbalah over the years.

So now, what is it really?

Kabbalist
Yehuda Ashlag defines Kabbalah this way:

This wisdom is no more and no less than a sequence of
roots, which hang down by way of cause and effect, in fixed, determined rules,
weaving into a single, exalted goal described as “the revelation of His
Godliness to His creatures in this world.”

Which means there is an upper force and then there are
governing forces that descend from this upper force and bring about our
existence in this world. We’re familiar with physical forces, such as gravity,
electromagnetism and the power of thought. But there are forces of a higher
order that act while remaining hidden from us. Just like we know the effects of
electricity, but can’t see it and don’t we don’t really know what it is.

The ultimate comprehensive force, The Creator, is the sum of
all of the world’s forces and the highest level in the line of higher governing
forces.

This upper force gave birth to five upper worlds and a
barrier separating them from our world.

The science of Kabbalah doesn’t study our world and the
people in it, the way traditional science does. It investigates everything that
exists beyond that barrier.

There is nothing other than forces descending from above in
accordance with precise laws. These laws, as Ashlag writes, are fixed, absolute
and everywhere. Ultimately, they're all directed so that we can reveal the
governing force of nature even while we exist in this world.

There is only one destination in life and two paths leading
there. The destination is complete perfection and fulfillment, but we reach it
either slowly by the path of pain or in an accelerated and pleasant way by the
path of light and transformation.

The path of pain isn’t really a path at all it’s the accumulation of puzzling
events in life that happen to us because we’re not consciously involved in our
development. It’s the slow, painful, grinding evolution we call history that
started, I don’t know, somewhere and is taking us God know where.

The path of light and transformation is the path by which we discover our own
nature and the nature of the force that’s guiding us. We come to understand
what it is and where we’re going. We become attracted to it and even pursue it.

But on the path of pain we only get pushed from behind by it in the form of
physical events that bring us just enough suffering to unconsciously make inner
changes that move us forward. And because we are so unlike the force of
development, we resist it and experience this as pain.

The path of pain – is really the evolution of egoism over millennia. As we
continued to devise more and more ways of extracting pleasure from nature, this
seemed endless, it always held out promises for us - In the next generation
there will be greater wealth, we’ll all live like the king lives, we will be
able to cross the seas and discover what else is in this world, we go into
space and see what’s out there, we can achieve political and personal freedom,
we can build machines to do our work for us and just enjoy ourselves – but it’s
turned out to be quite the opposite. We’re not enjoying. We’ve come to a
complete alienation from each other.

So - The weapons of total destruction we see are just the physical indication
appearing on the path of pain that the ego has evolved to its final form. We can’t
go any further using it. We’ve come to an impasse in all areas of human
endeavor because Egoism can’t take us any further; we are beginning to need
something else of a completely different order – this is the first appearance
of a spiritual need in humanity as a whole.

Humanity as a whole now must evolve consciously using that completely
different, higher principal of nature.

On the path of light called the path of Torah, we can get ahead of the wave and
already start inwardly living our next state by choice so no negative physical
push is required.

Let's put this back where it came from.

Can I ask
you a serious question? Where are you? In front of a computer screen? In a
body? a home? a city? On a planet? In love? In pain?...What is all this that you see and feel? What
is it for?Why are you having the
experience your having? Where are you ? … And why are you there?

If you
really think about it, it’s pretty clear that the answer to those questions
holds the answer to every other possible question, and the only thing
preventing us from getting the answer is the way we perceive reality. Cause if
we could see it for what it really is we’d know what we are, where we’re going,
and the reason for everything that’s happening in our lives. So what is it
about the way we perceive that’s stopping us from knowing?

What’s
keeping us in the dark?

Lets start
here. This (gesture, pointing to whole
space in a large circle) is the total of reality, and out here is what we
think of as other dimensions, non material potential, our future and everything
that’s hidden to us, what we want to feel but can’t, what we want to know but
don’t know yet. For some reason we have no sense of this. so for us it’s as
though this doesn’t exist at all. And what is all this? - unbounded pleasure,
unlimited existence, complete perception and connection with the force that
builds and guides the material universe (hold
up box) where we are. This is us – A
closed box with 5 little openings to what surrounds us. Even though we have these
five senses to determine what’s real and to guide us, none of them works
in a way capable of sensing anything that’s out here for what it really
is. The problem is, this is where we actually live…and yet we only experience
what you find in there (point to box) and what you find in there is limited
perception, isolation, fleeting pleasures, and all kinds of problems that cause
suffering.

So why
don’t we experience what’s out here instead of what’s in there?

(zoom into box)

When
something from the total of reality comes calling we think we know what it is,
but we never get the thing itself. It never actually enters the box because the
senses aren’t really openings. What’s outside hits some kind of resistance, a
screen, a barrier, like an eardrum, or a retina, a taste bud, or a nerve that
interprets what’s outside and then gives it an identity and meaning
according to the effect that this unknown thing might have on the box. But the
interpretation that the sensor gives us is entirely limited to the way it’s
programmed. The program doesn’t tell us what the outer, objective reality
actually is – it reduces it, feels it only according to the nature of its inner
programming - and all of our senses run on the exact same program, so whether
your eye uses an electron microscope or the Hubble Space telescope, what you’ll
ultimately see will always be a subjective picture, controlled and determined
by the program.

So what
exactly is this program? It’s called Egoism, self-concern, how does this affect
me? What’s do I get out of this? Or as the Kabbalists call it “The Will to
Receive,”

The box is
a machine. The input is a formless unknown (which has no shape until you give
it one) that gets processed through an inner program, and the output of the box
is our reality.

But that’s
NOT real reality, that’s just how it appears to the Will to Receive. Cause out
here everything operates according to another all encompassing program that
always and only creates, sustains and guides, it has absolutely no self concern
so it has no limitations. It is unconditional altruism, or as the Kabbalists
call it “The Will to Bestow”, the general law of the universe, the single
benevolent force behind all nature and existence. The thing that gives you your
life.

This is the
complete polar opposite of the box. It’s like comparing the big bang to a black
hole! It’s so unlike the reason behind everything we feel, want, and do,
that as long as we measure life through our five senses and the Will to
Receive, we will never know our true nature, the nature of reality or the
purpose of our lives.

THE END

You don’t
really think this is the end do you? Because that would mean that life was
designed to be cruel and pointless, and even though it often feels that way, -
like right now – there’s something inside that feels there’s got to be a way
out of this narrow existence.And there
is! But it all depends on what you desire. When the need to get out of the box
finally becomes strong enough a different kind of desire appears as a tiny
point in your consciousness and the only thing it wants is to be directly
connected with the program outside the box. Once it’s awakened, if you know how
to develop this desire, that point can grow to become the basis of a completely
new sense different from the physical senses that can allow you to perceive the
greater reality and feel the nature of the force behind it.

How can
that happen? Kabbalah tells us there is a law called Equivalence of Form.

In the
physical world you can take two things that are very different from each other
in form and quality, place them beside each other in space and we say they’re
close.

But out
here there’s no time or space, no separate objects like the physical world.
Here there are only forces, fields of influence which are varying degrees of
bestowal resembling the attitude of the general law of the universe. In the non
physical, if these fields have different qualities they’re distant from each
other, if they have similar qualities they’re close, BUT if they have exactly
the same quality, purpose and feeling they are in fact the same thing!
Inseparable, bonded!

So, this
opposite egoistic quality of the five senses blocks our perception, and gives
us the experience of separation, isolation and constant lack.

But that
embryonic point in your heart, the reason you’re asking these questions, tiny
as it is, is unconsciously similar in quality and feeling to the unseen world,
it’s intimately connected, interwoven with it, and will ultimately bring you to
know and enter it and reveal that every event in your life, every experience,
desire, joy and disappointment is actually the general law of the universe
guiding reality to develop and awaken you to consciously choose to come into
balance with it, by receiving what it most wants to give – the ability to
become exactly like it - so that what it feels, you feel, what it knows, you
know, and what it can do, you can do.

The method
of developing this additional sense is called Kabbalah.

Kabbalah is
not a religion; it’s not magic or mysticism. It’s the user’s manual for
reality, a map of our sensation and feelings. It explains not only the way our inner and outer
worlds are constructed, but why. It’s a science so fundamental that it can
truly be called wisdom, Kabbalah has been passed down through an unbroken chain from teacher to student
over thousands of years, kept hidden, until the time when humanity would
finally reach the need, the stage of our development where we could properly
understand and use it. That time is now.

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